Oh no, there’s a dog in this film! At the
risk of getting lots of hate comments, I don’t like dogs and usually avoid dog
films like the plague. But the cast is promising and it seems to be sci-fi-ish
so maybe there’s hope. And Simon Pegg is usually weird enough to counter the
dogness.

Loser-teacher-failed-author Neil (Pegg) is
in love with his neighbour Catherine (Beckinsale), a TV writer who is ordered
by her boss (Lumley) to diss good authors.

Meanwhile the Intergalactic Council (or
whatever it’s called, voices of the Monty Python gang) is trying to decide
whether or not to destroy the human race. Neil is randomly chosen to be given
magical powers to see if he uses them for good or evil. The power? Everything
he says comes true. Literally.

It freaks him out. Like the rest of us,
he says a lot of things he doesn’t mean literally. When he realises he can do
anything he uses his power for silly selfish reasons. Some of them backfire,
some bore him. The Intergalactic Council are not impressed.

Shaun
of the Dead or The World’s End it
is not. It is not so much weird as silly. And there’s too much dog. It has its
funny moments though and Simon Pegg is endearing.